PYMNTS

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Square , the FinTech payments company headed by Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey, announced on Thursday (Oct. Square was founded in 2009 in Silicon Valley and has offices in the United States, Canada, Japan, Australia, Ireland, Spain, and the U.K.

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Chris Skinner

MARCH 7, 2018

Everyone got very excited a few years ago about blockchain technologies, the ledger system that was spawned by the arrival of bitcoin in 2009. I recently wrote an article for Bloomberg’s Business Week, and thought it worth sharing with y’all here: What’s next for blockchain? appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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Let's Talk Payments

JUNE 4, 2019

Studying the properties and composition that make up the FinTech ecosystem Welcome to this week’s industry analysis with the FinTech Chemist. While I may not be literally mixing solutions and preparing reagents, I am studying and testing out the latest and greatest in FinTech.

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Chris Skinner

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

They tracked the history of 86,034 blockchain projects hosted on GitHub since 2009 to pull out “key lessons” on where the blockchain industry is going and its long-term prospects. I just read an interesting new report from Deloitte about blockchain.

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Chris Skinner

JULY 26, 2016

In 2009, I coined the word BaaS. No, nothing to do with sheep! Instead, BaaS stands for Banking-as-a-Service.

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Bank Innovation

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Danish credit card fraud significantly increased in 2016, Bloomberg said, and reports of online fraud in the country have increased 300% from reports in 2009. […]. In Denmark, the advent of digital banking also saw almost a 60% jump in card fraud, Bloomberg reported yesterday.

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PYMNTS

JULY 28, 2017

RBS is also required to pay grants to challenger banks and FinTechs in an effort to enhance competition. Those efforts were a response to RBS’ 2009 financial crisis bailout, reports explained, but faced roadblocks as experts warned W&G would not be able to survive independently from RBS funding.

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PYMNTS

JANUARY 28, 2020

Credit unions (CUs) face stiff competition from banks, FinTech firms and other players in the financial industry, but they have several intrinsic advantages. billion in 2009 to $1.54 million members in 2009 to 119.6 CUs Stick Together To Compete With Banks, FinTech Firms. Total CU assets increased 7.4 trillion in 2019.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

Since it was launched in 2009, the monies have financed a total of $35 billion in trade, with $13 billion in low-income and lower middle-income countries and $3.5 While disturbing, it presents an opportunity for FinTechs at a time when the market is ripe for banking disruption and digitization.

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PYMNTS

APRIL 2, 2020

Georgia-based Kabbage claims it has provided small business borrowers with over $9 billion in loans as of its 2009 establishment. Borrowers, who realized the credit lines were halted when they signed onto their accounts, claim the company did not provide them with notice, according to a Bloomberg report.

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Let's Talk Payments

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Embracing the Southeast Asian digital revolution in financial technology, FinTech seems to be exploding with quite a lot of startups having been established from 2009 onwards. The breadth and depth.

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PYMNTS

MAY 24, 2016

Financial Times reported that just one in 30 bank and credit union branches has been forced to shutter its doors since 2009, despite the massive surge in digital FinServ and a subsequent drop in transactions completed by the physical locations. The rise in digital and online banking hasn’t deterred banks in the U.S.

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Chris Skinner

JUNE 4, 2018

That’s because I was presenting the idea ten years ago and blogged about it in February 2009. The good thing about blogging is that I have a public record of my thinking. Hence, I can claim that Banking-as-a-Service (BaaS) is mine. appeared first on Chris Skinner's blog.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Gaming FinTech Mazooma has formed a partnership with FinTech data network Plaid to bring an instant transfer solution to the iGaming and sports betting industry, according to a Tuesday (Nov. Mazooma, a gaming industry leader for more than 15 years, is headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia and was founded in 2009. 10) press release.

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PYMNTS

JULY 1, 2020

Since it was launched in 2009, the monies have financed a total of $35 billion in trade, with $13 billion in low-income and lower middle-income countries and $3.5 While disturbing, it presents an opportunity for FinTechs at a time when the market is ripe for banking disruption and digitization.

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Bobsguide

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Blockchain has created a huge amount of buzz in the financial services industry since its official debut into the market in 2009. Everything you want to know about blockchain but were too afraid to ask. The question of when blockchain will go mainstream is yet to be answered, but there is constant.

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 26, 2016

Back in 2009 when eCommerce platform BigCommerce was getting its start, Austin wasn’t considered a place where working for a startup was common. Though BigCommerce was actually founded in Sydney, Australia, Stewart said the company has had an office in Austin since May 2009 and now considers the city to be its headquarters.

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Fintech Labs Insights

APRIL 12, 2024

Long before fintech was a thing (1995), I launched the first, and by most measures the biggest, newsletter during the first two decades of online/digital banking. It’s still going under the stewardship of fintech famous Jim Marous, who modernized the name to Digital Banking Report (and recently opened the archives for free access).

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PYMNTS

AUGUST 4, 2020

FinTech Kabbage could be seeking a sale, and in doing so, could look to garner up to $1 billion, according to sources quoted by Barron’s. The business did well during the pandemic, out-performing some larger lenders, and the sale could have bids within the month, the sources said. Kabbage had no comment.

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CFPB Monitor

DECEMBER 20, 2018

In this week’s episode, Pennsylvania Secretary of Banking and Securities Robin Wiessmann discusses lessons learned from the 2009 financial crisis and concerns arising from today’s market conditions and regulatory environment, shares her views on the OCC’s fintech charter and provides an update on steps that States are taking to relieve regulatory burdens (..)

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PYMNTS

JULY 14, 2020

Since its 2009 debut, the fund has connected businesses to $35 billion in trade finance. It’s too early to tell how the pandemic might lead to an expansion of that gap, but it has clearly persisted for years despite initiatives from FinTechs and banks that aimed to broaden trade finance availability. Contingency Planning.

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PYMNTS

MARCH 9, 2020

Intuit , the tax software company best known as being the enterprise behind QuickBooks and TurboTax , is looking into acquiring FinTech Finicity , according to reports. Intuit recently bought Credit Karma for $7 billion. It could also potentially buy Credit Sesame and NerdWallet. It has raised $105 million through four funding rounds.

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Jeff For Banks

DECEMBER 12, 2015

FinTech, FinTech, FinTech! A banker told me yesterday that if I wanted headlines in American Banker , put FinTech in my copy. So FinTech (six) firms need capital and revenues to grab a foothold in the financial services market. If looking for a FinTech (seven) partner, follow your vendor management procedures.

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PYMNTS

JUNE 26, 2020

This will be East Ventures’ eighth fund since forming in 2009. Earlier this year, Southeast Asia led the pack in terms of funding for FinTechs. “It is easier now to filter good entrepreneurs as we saw how many entrepreneurs handled this COVID-19 crisis,” Cuaca said, according to Bloomberg. Crisis brings clarity.”.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

It was launched following the financial crisis of 2007 to 2009 as an early warning system to avoid another “global market meltdown.” As a way to prevent unfair competition, firms like Google, Alibaba and Facebook could be forced to share data with banks and FinTech firms.

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PYMNTS

MAY 28, 2020

Financial institutions (FIs) have been scrambling to bring these services to web and mobile channels in response, and are partnering with FinTechs to make these changes as quickly as possible. Biometric security systems are just one example of the major technological investments banks have made in recent years.

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ABA Community Banking

JANUARY 2, 2020

Whether it’s buying a mortgage division in 2009 or building a diversified product set in an age of nichification, community bank CEO Luanne Cundiff zigs when pundits say to zag. The post The Community Bank Contrarian appeared first on ABA Banking Journal.

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PYMNTS

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Those latter two firms have been in the in-store POS market for quite some time (Square, for example, since 2009). The point of sale, then, is fast becoming the new point of competition between a traditional FI and a slew of FinTechs and service providers. Square and PayPal do not have monthly fees, but levy fees of 2.6

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Let's Talk Payments

JUNE 19, 2017

Square was started in 2009 to enable businesses to accept card payments, an important capability that was previously inaccessible to many businesses. Since then, Square has continued to expand its.

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CB Insights

NOVEMBER 2, 2017

Square launched in 2009 with an initial product that enabled sellers to accept card payments using a smartphone-attachable magnetic stripe dongle. Since then, Square (NYSE: SQ, Mkt Cap: $13.7B) has evolved its product and service line into a much broader suite, encompassing small business loans, payroll, food delivery, P2P payments, and more.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

percent in 2019, its lowest rate in a decade since the FDIC first began tracking this statistic in 2009. Legacy FIs must navigate several challenges to be able to offer mobile payments support with the same seamlessness as third-party FinTechs. The percentage of unbanked households in the country had previously fallen to 5.4

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PYMNTS

MARCH 14, 2017

According to Finextra , PDS has entered into a non-binding Letter of Intent to acquire Singular, a FinTech payments provider that utilizes innovative technology for merchants in health care and other niche verticals nationwide.

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Let's Talk Payments

DECEMBER 29, 2016

Even though the company was founded in 2009, the current year has shown. 27.12.2016 – Warsaw, Poland – Kontomatik is happy to announce its exponential growth during the year 2016.

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PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

As FinTech startups bring more transparency and convenience into an industry that has operated on the same principles since modern finance began, banks have had to decide whether they were going to move in that direction, too, or dig their heels in and get ready for a fight. It appears that at least one bank has chosen the latter.

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PYMNTS

JULY 19, 2016

The former CEO was also charged with inflating monthly loan volumes back in 2009 by giving the loans to family. Since the woes at Lending Club have come to light, rumors have abounded that the FinTech company would look to sell itself.

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PYMNTS

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

“In the past ten years, the media landscape has seen explosive growth and sophistication in the form of mobile, digital, video and OTT [over-the-top], with more advertisers trending away from traditional media like TV and print,” Baysal recently told PYMNTS for its latest Class of 2009: Innovator’s Club discussion.

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American Banker

JUNE 6, 2016

Juniorization: While investment banks have cut compensation costs by 21% on average since 2009, they've only made staff cuts of 3% in the same time. Receiving Wide Coverage. Companies have been increasing their employee retention efforts initiative to improve the work-life balance of its more junior bankers.

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